Ram Gidoomal is a former Hindu who is now a believer in Jesus. He has thought through what the Savior has accomplished for the world and has come to a profound conviction: on His cross, Christ has paid the karma debt of all humanity. Here, for vast numbers of Hindus in the world, is an exit from Hinduism into the beginnings of faith in Jesus.
Hinduism believes that we all come into the world with a karmic account. If we live evil lives, we increase our karmic debt so that when we leave this life we will have this mountain of karmic debt that will necessitate our transmigration into a lower form of life.
That’s a distorted spin-off from a basic biblical truth: we do come into the world under a burden of debt imposed upon us by our fallen father Adam and handed down to us in our DNA as the judicial “condemnation” we inherit from him. True, we did not ask for this burden but it comes with the gift of human life we have received from fallen Adam.
But something else has come to us all that we did not ask for: the lifting or reversal of that burden of judicial condemnation; it’s in the “last Adam” or second Adam—Jesus Christ. This former Hindu has seen something, blind as he may be, significant: Christ is a cosmic Savior who has rightly earned the title the Samaritans gave Him—“Savior of the world” (John 4:42).
Like the ancient Jews who couldn’t bring themselves to grant salvation to the Gentiles, many of us professed Christians back off from the truth that Gidoomal has seen: we are hesitant to grant that Christ has accomplished something for every human soul, given something to every human soul; as far as many of us are willing to go is to concede that Christ has accomplished only the right to offer every human soul salvation but many insist that what He offers doesn’t do us any good unless we first accept and believe: the idea is that He hasn’t given the gift of salvation to every human soul, He has only offered it.
Sounds great: we are afraid to let Jesus open the gates of the New Jerusalem and let people in who are undeserving.
But He doesn’t need our help; He knows what He is doing. Not one unbelieving soul will walk through the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem, not because the gates are closed against him but because in his unbelief he has chosen to reject the gift that Christ has given him. A widely distributed little book tells it right: “The sinner may resist this love, may refuse to be drawn to Christ; but if he does not resist he will be drawn to Jesus, ... to the foot of the cross in repentance for his sins” (Steps to Christ, p. 27). It helps people to realize that Christ has paid their karmic debt.
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